LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21334, 29 November 1934, Page 15

LYTTELTON NEWS

OLD-TIME DANCE I The committee of the West LyltclI ton School will hold a further old-time | dance in the Excelsior Hall on Saturj day evening. The wearing of flannels will be optional. j Magistrate's Court I Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. For procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order, John Thomas Murphy was convicted and lined 10s and costs 10s. \ Jarnes Edward Bisman, licensee ot the Empire Hotel, for whom Mr A. W. Smithson appeared, pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying liquor after hours. | Sergeant D. Wilson said that when he entered the hotel in company with a constable, he found a number of men in the office with Bisman. They had liquor before them and Bisman did not deny that the drinks had been I paid for. Defendant usually conducted the hotel satisfactorily. Mr Smithson said the men found on the premises were personal friends of Bisman's. The bars were not. open. ] He asked that the court deal leniently with defendant, who conducted the hotel in a satisfactory manner. ' Defendant was convicted and fined £7. with costs 10s. For being on the premises of the I Empire Hotel after hours, the following ! defendants were each convicted and fined £l. with costs 10s, Andrew Berry, I Reginald Duckworth, John Jones, RonI aid Patrick Sinclair, and Samuel SinI clair. James Ross, barman at the Royal HoteJ, was charged that, being a person other than the licensee, he did supply liquor after hours. Grace Ann Moore, the licensee, was charged with having, through her servant, James Ross, "supplied liquor after hours. Evidence was given that the police, on entering the hotel at 9.0 p.m. found two men. Wallace and Bowden, in a room upstairs, with the barman. Ross. There were a number of empty glasses on a tray which Ross had in his hand. In a statement tc the court, Ross said the men were personal friends whom he had invited to have a drink at his expense. They did not pay for any liquor. The licensee, Mrs Moore, did not know they were on the premises. Ross was convicted and fined £4, I with 10s costs. Mrs Moore was convicted and fined £3, with 10s costs. The two men. Thomas Wallace and Thomas Bowden. were each convicted of being on licensed premises after hours and lined £l, with costs 10s. Reginald McAlear Ball, for whom Mr D. W. Russell'appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of. that being a person other than the licensee, he sunplied liquor after hours. i The evidence for the prosecution was j (hat two men. Laming and Smith, had been seen leaving the Mitre Hotel, an night. Laming carrying a "blue peter" of beer. Laming said he had purchased the beer during the dav and had left it in the hotel kitchen. He had entered the hotel to get if The oolicc learned that Ball, who was a lodger at the hotel over the week-end. had sunolied the liquor. Mr Russell said that Ball had been out to a party with the other tw>f men, and when the beer had run short, had offered to get some more. }lc thought he was eniitled, as a lodger, to do so. He purchased the beer and then gave it to Lamina, deciding not (o return (o the party himself. "I think there is more in this ease than meets the eye." said the magistiate. "The defendant will be eonvicled and fined £a. with cost? 10s." Defendant was allowed two weeks in which to pay the amount. For being on the nremises of the Mitre Hotel after hour-. William Thomas Laming and William B. Snvlh were each convicted and fined £l.j with costs 10s. | An application by Josephine Mark-j ham for an increase in a maintenance order against John Joseph Duffy, of £1 a week, in respect of his four chil- j dren, was granted, the order being in- 1 creased to £1 10s a week. j Sailing ! A yacht race for old-time yachting skippers will be held by the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club on

Saturday afternoon, for A and B class yachts. The club will hold a Z class trial race on Saturday, and two tria. races on Sunday. The Canterbury Sailing and Power Boat Association will hold a further Sanders Cup trial race on Saturday afternoon over a triangular course. An endeavour is being made to hold a further race on Sunday. At a meeting of the committee oJ the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club on Tuesday night. 14 new members were elected. It was arranged to hold a picnic at Pile Bay on December 9.